Compressed folder windows xp missing

Use an USB-stick or extern harddisk Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. I already turned off compression for the drive. I'll try uncompressing on Program Files but I already tried that on My Documents and it didn't uncompress all files. Hover Cat Dave. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. Press ESC or F12 key to enter boot menu while booting up, then boot from the Windows installation disc.

Here are the steps to decompress this file:. Step 1. Step 4. Step 5. Step 2. Access Recovery Console by pressing R. Then press 1 and hit Enter. Step 3. Input A dministrator password if you have, then input the following commands copy the NTLDR file from the Windows installation disc to the current system hard disk:.

Right-click the your hard drive icon; choose Properties from the shortcut menu. Windows XP automatically compresses and decompresses your files, almost instantaneously.

Whenever you open a compressed file, Windows quickly and invisibly expands it to its original form so that you can edit it. When you close the file again, Windows instantly recompresses it. Any file you copy into a compressed folder or disk is compressed automatically. If you only move it into such a folder from elsewhere on the disk, however, it stays compressed or uncompressed—whichever it was originally. Even so, if your hard drive is anywhere near full, it might be worth turning on NTFS compression.

The space you save could be your own. To turn on NTFS compression, right-click the icon for the file, folder, or disk whose contents you want to shrink. Now choose Properties from the shortcut menu.

Figure Right: If you see this box, you probably want to choose the bottom option, so that all the subfolders are compressed, too. Many Windows veterans wind up turning on compression for the entire hard drive.

It takes Windows several hours to do the job. If you plan to go see a movie while Windows is working, though, quit all your programs first. When Windows is finished compressing, their icons appear in a different color, a reminder that Windows is doing its part to maximize your disk space. You can upgrade your drive formatting to NTFS without having to erase it.

See page for instructions. But as soon as you email your files to somebody else or burn them to a CD, the transferred copies bloat right back up to their original sizes.